I have just pushed a nice little improvement that lets the editor to double-click a block and edit its properties straight away.
No context switching, no context menus or finding the rights commands, just double click an item in the Content Area and you're good to go!
More info here:
https://github.com/episerver/EPiServer.Labs.BlockEnhancements#inline-block-editing
v0.4.0 is available here:
https://nuget.episerver.com/package/?id=EPiServer.Labs.BlockEnhancements&v=0.4.0